Tuesday, July 11, 2017Nimble Links Into Microsoft Office 365Santa Monica-based customer relationship management (CRM) software developer Nimble has connected up its software to Microsoft Office 365, the company said on Tuesday. Nimble said the link will match up and provide social profiles, from within Microsoft Office 365, Outlook desktop and iOS. Nimble's CEO is Jon Ferrara, who was an early pioneer in the CRM space, having previously founded GoldMine. Nimble offers up both free and "Business" edition versions of its software. The Business edition cost (More info...)
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Soylent Now Available In LA 7-11 StoresStopping by your local, Los Angeles 7-11 convenience store for a free Slurpee today? While you are there, you might notice that you can now buy Soylent, the meal replacement product created by Los Angeles-based Rosa Foods. According to Soylent, it started offering up its "nutritionally complete, ready-to-drink meals" at 18 of 7-Eleven's stores in the Greater Los Angeles area on Monday, including a number of locations across Los Angeles, plus Santa Monica, Culver City, Venice, and elsewhere. Rosa (More info...)
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Jam City Launches Snoopy PopLos Angeles-based mobile game developer Jam City said this morning that it has officially launched a new "bubble shooter" game, Snoopy Pop, which features characters from the Peanuts and Snoopy. Jam City--which had announced a deal with Peanuts Worldwide earlier this year around the game--said the game allows anyone with a mobile device to "help rescue Woodstock and his flock of birds who have been trapped in bubbles." The game is free to play, and runs both on iOS and Android. Jam City is also (More info...)
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Elon Musk Buys Back X.com
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, has acquired the domain name X.com, from PayPal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Elon Musk had started X.com in January of 1999, before it merged with Confinity and became PayPal. Apparently, Elon Musk had acquired X.com from its former owners for stock in X.com (now PayPal), well before PayPal's IPO. X.com is one of only three, single letter dot com domains in existence, which were grandfathered into the domain name sys (More info...)
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UberMedia Acquires CintricPasadena-based UberMedia, a provider of mobile location data to businesses, said this morning that it has acquired Cintric, a provider of location and analytics software for mobile app publishers. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Cintric develops a mobile SDK which is used to measure locaiton information for mobile app users. Cintric is also based in Pasadena and was venture backed by E.W. Scripps Company.
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Spokeo Targets Law Enforcement Market With Social Media Search ToolPasadena-based Spokeo, which offers up an online "people search" tool, said it has launched a new product specifically aimed at the law enforcement market. According to Spokeo, it has launched Spokeo for Law Enforcement, an investigative search tool which pulls together both traditional, public records on people and combines that with social media data. According to Spokeo, the new tool will help officials better track down, monitor and contact individuals. Spokeo said it tapped government data (More info...)
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